Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-12
DAKOTA NEWS.

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The regiment Ut Nandan is to be re.
neved.
Sioux Falls wants $4,000 for school
expenses.
The damage to wheat around Flan-
drau is great.
Lightning did considerable damage at
Abercromb,e.
"A Methodist camp meeting was held
ct Gary recently.
The largest crop of Barley ever known
is reported at Bathgate.
The Northwestern Dental association
met at Fargo recently.
The Daily Huronite has been en-
larged to six column folio.
Work on the street railway of Sioux
Falls will soon commence.
The depot OF Castlewood was struck
by lightning and burned down.
For the first time since 1879 the West
Vermillion river has ceased to flow.
Burglars again made three nocturnal
visits at Sioux Falls the other night.
-Oakes, now that the Minneapolis and
Pacific is assured, is having boom.
"A Webster special says wheat there
will average thirty bushels to the acre.
The Central Dakota Immigration
Company is getting to work in earnest.
Gov. Church is receiving contributions
for the New YORK Star Grant monument
fund.
The Farmers alliance of Dakota now
has membership of between $1,000 and
10000.
The executive board of the Farmers
Territorial alliance hal o session Mt Huron
lately.
Gen. Tyner, of Fargo, will resign as
member of the civil service commission of
North Dakota.
-Twenty-seven miles of trees were
planted this spring along the public high
ways in six townships Of Beadle county.
The Congregational association form
ally accepted the offer of Fargo. Work
will soon commence on college buildings.
Over $500 cattle have crossed the river
at Pierre within the past six weeks. All
came from Oregon and are being driven
east.
Commissioner Mcclure estimates
from land Office reports gain of $500 in
opulation during June, or 81, 1000 during
he yc.ccr.
-Ee&3. Wales, tho landlord Of the Prior
house at Frederick, has skipped TO the
sorrow of the merchants Of that place and
his hired help.
The Academy of the Sacred Heart has
been incorporated at Aberdeen, with Father
HARE and the Catholic sisters the princi-
pal incorporates.
Prof. Edward Olson, for q long time
connected with the university of Chicago,
will take charge of the Dakota university
at Vermillion Us president.
"A lantern hanging in the barn of John
Crest, near Leonard, exploded burning
his new barn and nne horses just inn
ported, wor about $3.50 each.
Fargo was visited by severe electrical
and windstorm. Telegraph poles were
blown down and the large foundry of the
Standard Oil company demolished.
Elkton has been named the Gate City
of Dakota. since it is the first town in the
Territory one enters in coming over the
Dakota Central or on the Rock Island.
The ohur.h property of Sioux Falls
is valued at $4,000; it's school property,
which includes two denominational col
leges and deaf mute school OF $780,, 800.
Rev. Mr.. Holt, of Sioux Falls, wants
new church. He is the pastor of the
Congregational society, but said he was
not sectarian since be could unite in build
ing large church with the Baptists, Pres
byterians, Methodists or Free Baptists.
Hon. c. G. Williams, at the meeting
OF divisionists at Huron the other day, in
IN enthusiastic speech intimated that it
wouldn't do for the government of the
United States to tride with Dakota much
longer or she might repeat that Boston
harbor tea act of revolutionary fame.
The decision of Judge Spencer in de-
nying the injunction restraining the re-
moval of the county records from Colum-
bia to Aberdeen, does not decide the valid
ity of the law by which the election was
submitted. 1t is thought that Columbia,
however, will not proceed further in the
courts.
The board of trustees of Highmoce re-
ccived telegram from the Empire Artesian
Well Company that the contract forwarded
to them was accepted and signed by them.
This closes the contract, for the board at
Highmore signed it before transmitting it.
The we'll will be begun on or before Sep
TENDER l. Highmore will then have two
Rrtesian wells.
In the Brown county seat case. in
which Columbia seeks to prove that the
law of the last Legislature submitting tho
vote and contrary to the law passed ly the
last congress prohibiting special legislation
in the Territory, that town has employed
IN array Of eminent attorneys, among
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